WPRB Plays "Blackbird"

Not Truth, But Effect
featuring the weekly Warped Moment at 6pm
with KPC


Tuesday, January 29, 2008
17:00 to 19:00
Rock/etc

17 Pygmies' cover version of "Blackbird" from "13 Blackbirds" release (2007) makes the playlist for this cool radio show at Princeton University.



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WPRB Plays "New Generation"

Giants Of Jazz
with Daniel DiMaggio


Thursday, January 24, 2008
21:00 to 01:00
Rock/etc



WPRB is a commercial, non-profit radio station located in scenic Princeton, New Jersey. Operated by the students of Princeton University, WPRB offers the widest selection of music on the radio today; from the heart of Classical music composition, through the spectrum and crossroads of Jazz and into the best in Alternative and Indie Rock. We even have the longest running folk show in the state. During the academic year, WPRB also offers live sports broadcasts.

WPRB's broadcast range stretches from the outskirts of New York, NY through Philadelphia, PA and into Wilmington, DE which, combined with 14,000 watts of stereo power, makes us one of the world's strongest college radio stations. This is an advantage not only for our listeners, but also for advertisers who wish to take advantage of both our wide-ranging, eclectic audience and the 15,000 square miles of coverage.

http://www.wprb.com/printplaylist.php?show_id=12860

The Next Big Thing Reviews Cult With No Name

This is a strange concept that initially sounds like a lounge pianists outing with a piece entitled “the morning after the night before last”. This is as far away from “rock” as I’ve been in some time. Drifting way out to sea and I think that the calming effect is something I could use more of.

There’s something quite Roxy Music about it without them sounding anything alike. Kinda abstract Ben Folds territory even. Or Todd Rundgren? It kind of reminds me of The Pearlfishers with a darker streak too.

PWR is a grower. I was sceptical at first but their songs have somehow wheedled themselves under my skin with repeated plays. Look at the influences listed on their myspace as you listen. Go easy on the head scratching though.

Lindsay Hutton

The Next Big Thing Reviews The 17th Pygmy

So here’s the paisley overground. A lush, soaring psychedelic psmogasbord that seems to connect Fleetwood Mac with Wooden Shjips. Beautifully packaged, which seems to be a trademark of Trakwerx quality and very tastefully recorded. If there were such a thing as airwaves in the traditional sense then this would or should be all over it. These lysergic folk pop hark back and pull forward at the same time. The result positively shimmers. If they can pull this off live then there are a wealth of REM and Dream Syndicate fans out there that are starved of something substantial. “Beautiful Lie” sounds like something Debbie Harry could use. In fact Meg Maryatt bears quite a striking vocal resemblance throughout.

She also plays accordion which is a big plus point. Heard a feature on the wireless this morning about that instrument being back but it was never away if you knew where to look. (Hi Angel!)

If you want something substantial that has elements of the Radionapper/Brian Jonestown formula then those vibes don’t come much closer than “Just Like Brian Jones”. Being that there’s no consensus anymore, I’m not sure how you get something like this to the people who would go gaga for it. In terms of what I perceive to be broad commercial appeal then this has everything. It doesn’t require hype, it just needs to be heard. It’s one of those things that if you heard it in a record store (remember those?), you’d be up at the counter asking what it was. I don’t believe there’s a higher accolade than that.

“No tambourines were harmed in the making of this album”. Damnit, they’re funny too.

Lindsay Hutton

Nosferatu makes 2007 Top 10 list

Randy (kyote23 on myspace) has listed his TOP 10 2007 RELEASES

in no particular orders, here is what knocked me out this past year:

del rey & the sun kings - nosferatu (dvd)

einsturzende neubauten - alles wieder offen

the young gods - super ready/fragmente

radiohead - in rainbows

savage republic - 1938

waldteufel - sanguis

sky cries mary - small town

kinski - down below it's chaos

the valley - the valley

the peter brotzmann octet - the complete machine gun sessions

a minority of one - bathe in fiery answer

Cult With No Name makes top 10 list

Mick Mercer lists Cult With No Name's debut release "Paper Wraps Rock" in his top 10 for 2007.

To download his 2007 reviews and interviews (including Erik Stein from Cult With No Name) click on the link below:

Mick Mercer - THE MICK 40

"13 Blackbirds" on The Top 20 Albums of 2007

Lucid Culture lists the 17 Pygmies Double CD release "13 Blackbirds" as one of the top indie releases of 2007!

17 Pygmies - 13 Blackbirds

Farmhouse features The 17th Pygmy

"Last Train" from The 17th Pygmy's newest release Ballade Of Tristram's Last Harping is featured on a cool website called Farmhouse.

Farmhouse Magazine is run by a group of artists and writers who grew up during the information age, we’re using technology to revive the salons of old.

Farmhouse Magazine is dedicated to finding and promoting new and emerging voices in the arts. With every issue, we’re reaching an expanding audience and showcasing the best work that the Open Source Generation has to offer.

Best of all, we’re finding a way to use a wholly synthetic medium to build organic community of artists and writers.

Farmhouse Magazine

Nosferatu RELEASED!

NOSFERATU is Del Rey & The Sun King's second installment in a planned set of four new soundtracks for classic films made during the silent era of motion pictures. Their first release was a radically re-worked (and surprisingly, highly popular) score for Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 classic film Battleship Potemkin. Nosferatu also pays homage to several of Del Rey's favorite film composers, most notably Tangerine Dream, Popol Vue, Rachel Portman and Thomas Newman.

With a number of live performances planned and a built-in audience composed of (or is that decomposed of?) those who enjoy the death/glam/Goth lifestyle, not to mention the potential of midnight performance for actual vampires, Del Rey & The Sun King's Nosferatu should have no problem building upon and surpassing the strong commercial showing of it's predecessor Battleship Potemkin.

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